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Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.

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OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water — but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.source:TechCrunch

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits

Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.source:TechCrunch

It's Greg Brockman's OpenAI now

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former cofounder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives […]source:The Verge

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

"Runaway" AI, "rogue" agents, and "autonomous" actors-the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly "superhuman" systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…source:MIT Technology Review

AI Innovation & Applications

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.source:TechCrunch

ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug

Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.source:TechCrunch

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your […]source:The Verge

Linkdaze's smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.source:TechCrunch

Welcome to the AI crisis in math

Today on Decoder, I'm talking with Robert Hart, The Verge's London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longstanding problems in math that went off like a bombshell in the field. […]source:The Verge

Slack is launching collaborative vibe

Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you have […]source:The Verge

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point routes, with passengers requiring multiple connections. The airline can consider potentially hundreds of variables to price each of these journeys: demand, season, time of day, current events, global markets, and competitor airline activity to name…source:MIT Technology Review

Introducing AI Futures

Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.source:OpenAI

Position: Collusion Risks Among AI Reasoning Agents Justify Certification Requirements for Making Market Decisions

arXiv:2608.18078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that AI agents with chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities are predisposed to exhibit collusive behavior and should be required to obtain behavioral certification before making decisions that affect economic markets. This is because integrating these agents into society could collapse the legal evidentiary distinction between competition and collusion among independent firms without eroding the economic harm distinction. Experiments with DeepSeek-R1 agents in the Bertrand oligopoly pricing domain reveal a tendency towards tacit collusion that persists even when humans prompt the agents not to collude. We further show that the chain-of-thought of these agents can be steered toward either extremely collusive or highly competitive behavior in a way that is not semantically detectable bysource:arXiv

Position: Profiling Game Worlds by Transition Complexity

arXiv:2608.18079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Game world modeling (GWM) and reinforcement learning (RL) are often confounded because research papers rarely quantify how difficult the underlying transition prediction problem is at the declared interface (pixels/tokens/latents with finite history). We propose the Transition Complexity Profile (TCP): a small, reproducible set of metrics that characterizes an environment's (or gameplay dataset's) induced transition kernel by (i) intrinsic one-step branching, (ii) interaction-induced uncertainty and opponent influence when observable, and (iii) temporal/spatial dependency span via standardized probe curves. TCP is reported with an explicit reference distribution, protocol stochasticity, and a versioned measurement budget (sampling/resampling and fixed probe compute), enabling comparable numbers across benchmarks. We outline how common game families and modern "neural game engine" domains populatesource:arXiv

Large Language Models in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Applications, Innovations, and Ethical Challenges

arXiv:2608.18080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a review on the applications of large language models (LLMs) in health, e.g., social media analysis, clinical conversational agents, therapy support tools, prompt engineering, multimodal learning, and ethical considerations. We integrate findings from interdisciplinary studies utilizing diverse data sources such as social media posts, electronic medical records, and multimodal inputs to enable early detection of depression, suicide risk assessment, personalized therapy support, and psychoeducational content generation. Our review highlights advancements in LLM models and annotation strategies that enhance interpretability and clinical relevance, while we also emphasize the critical role of prompt engineering for domain adaptation. We also discuss emerging multimodal fusion techniques integrating text, speech, and sensor data for improved mental health diagnosissource:arXiv

Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work

With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.source:OpenAI

Introducing Claude Opus 5 \ Anthropic

Product Announcements Introducing Claude Opus 5 Jul 24, 2026 Claude Opus 5 is available today. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA , Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Opus 5 is designed to be used every day: it works more efficiently than other models. It's the new default model on Claude Max, and the strongest model on Claude Pro. Performance and cost-effectiveness Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8. The charts in this section show how performancesource:Anthropic

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Digital Marketing Updates

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.source:TechCrunch

Key Trends Today

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicatesBusinesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.

ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugEver wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbotGoogle will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your

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